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Re: Terminal Emulator Security Issues



On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 05:31:55PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote:

> I have taken over the multi-gnome-terminal package recently and I have
> found out that it has still the bugs described in
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2 . I have
> contacted the upstream author. Furthermore I have found only _one_ DSA for
> the xterm package that has resolved the problem for woody. Does that mean
> that all the other terminal emulators (eterm, rxvt, ...) are still
> vulnerable?

It is likely that other terminal emulators share these bugs; I do not think
that a comprehensive audit has been done.  As the maintainer, your
assistance in this area would be appreciated.

-- 
 - mdz



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